When Hip Hop was Fun

[grock2727]

ey Yo, why is it so uncool to smile?
since when did it become Hip Hops taboo?
cuz I would be smiling all the time,
if I made even half of the money you do.
Frownin like you just caught a face full of sun
how I miss the days when Hip Hop was fun.
When DJ Quik first burst on the scene
when Boyz in da Hood was on the big screen,
when Tupac Shakur was a dancer for Humpty,
when Nasty Nas 5-miced in the monthly,
when MC Breed painted the White House black,
when Too Short retired and then came back,
when Wyclef Jean asked out Mona Lisa,
thats the era this poem will feature.

I wanna go to a show and not have to front,
I'll fisticuff but I'd rather you pass the blunt.
Lets just chill and enjoy the diversity,
let's get lost in the musics uncertainty.
It doesn't make you less hardcore
if you shake your a$$ on the fukin dancefloor.
But somewhere along this road we made rules
and smiling became the weakness of a fool,
and silence and anger became the norm,
and thats when the party began to lose form.
I reminisce about the glory thats gone
when happiness wasn't looked down upon.
When EPMD crossed over with "The Crossover"
when Tim Hardaway still had his crossover.
I used to go to the store and buy classics,
now I go to the store and shyts plastic,
I can't call it, I'm fiending for skill,
cuz yall might be dope but I don't see your will,
all I see is suckers pretending they're ill,
snapping photographs with a barbeque grill.
Well I can't relate to this lack of humanity,
musics as vulnerable as insanity.

I remember when Phife was a sidekick,
when gangsta rap was still on the rise kid,
when De La Soul was reincarnated,
when Freestyle Fellowship first circulated,
when Run DMC wore Adidas sneakers,
thats the era this poem will feature,
from 86 to 95
when Hip Hop was just too thick to describe,
I strive to become it in every way,
so I practice religiously every day.
On the bus ride home folks thought I was schizo,
in 8th grade I wore more rayon then Sisqo.
Housing was in and,
Mistadabolina woulda caught a misdameanor if he faked on his friends see,
we would rap until we were bored,
with no cash advance or Grammy award,
my Boys Club trophies cluttered my shelf,
we've no other reason but reason itself.
So, why is it so uncool to smile?
since when did it become Hip Hops taboo?
cuz I would be smiling all the time,
if I made even half of the money you do.
Frownin like you just caught a face full of sun
how I miss the days when Hip Hop was fun,
how I miss the days when Hip Hop was fun,
how I miss the days when Hip Hop was One.


- INQ - Def Poet

I've wanted to post this for the longest, but I've never found the lyrics to copy and paste so I had to type it myself, just something for yall older heads to think about, speaking for myself I know I'm known on this forum as somewhat of a Jay-Z stan, Bit I'd trade every album for the Hip Hop we had back in those days.

Heres a video for those who want to see the cat who wrote this, I heard he has music too somewhere:

http://www.in-q.com/video/poetry/defpoetryjam.html

[D1ck Butkus]

Coool.